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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did farmers end up with plants that fulfilled their needs?
(a) Trial and error
(b) Random choices
(c) Scientific analysis
(d) Historical studies

2. The idea that there is a sharp divide between nomadic hunter-gatherers and sedentary food producers is what?
(a) Based on historical evidence
(b) A misconception
(c) True in all areas
(d) A scientific guess

3. What was one factor in the differing developments in the timing of food production?
(a) Advantages of seeds
(b) Advantages of water
(c) Advantages of steel
(d) Advantages of youth

4. People in areas with a head start on food production gained what?
(a) A resistance to disease
(b) A head start on hunting and gathering techniques
(c) A head start on guns, germs, and steel
(d) Steel production

5. When did the history of humans begin?
(a) 15 million years ago
(b) 1 million years ago
(c) 2 thousand years ago
(d) 7 million years ago

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a non-food producing specialist?

2. The arrival of humans on many of the continents coincided with what?

3. Where did the Incas first encounter the Spanish?

4. Some people argue that examining domination leads to what type of focus?

5. Strawberries are adapted to have seeds spread by what animals?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why were Europeans able to conquer Africans according to Diamond?

2. How does food production relate to a greater population?

3. Why does Diamond argue that wealth and power are distributed unevenly across the globe?

4. What was the development of humans like before the Great Leap Forward?

5. What does Diamond argue determined when a group would adopt food production?

6. What are the four stages in how diseases are transferred from animals to humans?

7. How did the Maori and the Moriori differ?

8. What are the three basic strategies for writing systems?

9. Why was a north-south axis a disadvantage in the domestication of plants?

10. How do inventions spread between societies?

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